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Originally Posted by Clif
The latest Kindle app has added French language localization, which has a cool feature some Anglophones who read French may like -- namely it has a "French-to-French" dictionary, i.e., you can highlight a word in a French text and it will give a definition in French. (The first time you highlight a word in a French text, it will ask permission to download the French dictionary)
I discovered this with a French text I had sideloaded from Gutenberg into the iPad app using the "Open With" feature in FTP-on-the-Go.
Admittedly this is for more advanced readers of French who already have a good working vocabulary. Still, for unrecognized words often a definition in French will suffice for those readers. Very cool. Now if I could get my Kindle itself to do that!
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I believe the K4 has dictionaries for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brit. English, & Braz. Portuguese. What would be interesting is if they are in the archive where older Kindles can download and use them. But I haven't heard reports of this.
The Android app also now supports the same set of languages, but seems still restricted to the English dictionary.